Vox

Editor’s note: According to the 2008 census, 58.5 percent of Miami-Dade County residents speak Spanish. Also, according to Google translator, the Spanish word for “heat” is actually “calor.” Finally, it’s not permanent: the uniform is for the NBA’s annual “Noche Latina” program.

“Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife. She has thought much worse things about you.”

“A gnat tip: Keep the gnats away with cactus spray. It works. And there are no chemicals in it.”

“I’m glad you enjoyed my anonymous Vox but you know what? It’s only anonymous to you. They, at BT, know exactly who I am. They know me very well so in your world I’m anonymous but to them they know exactly who I am. There is no anonymity at BT. Tim Wood told me that. So all you people making Voxes who think you are anonymous, you are not anonymous. The first time I ever called Tim Wood, he said ‘I thought I recognized that number.’ Anonymous my ‘you-know-what.’ Print that BT. Let all your Vox callers know that they really are not as anonymous as they think they are. You really need to make it clear that anonymity in the Vox only extends to those who call in infrequently. I’ve been calling the Vox for 15 years, back when it was in the Carolina Morning News. They know, at the Vox, very well, who I am. More and more of you out there should know that there is no anonymity in the Vox. Back up and own whatever it is that you are spouting out about; unlike your blogging.”

Editor’s note: We don’t get anyone’s numbers or other personal identifying information when they call Vox.

“One more and I promise I’ll stop for the day. I appreciate being able to have this outlet. If you guys were to ever ban me from calling, I would miss it tremendously so thanks for your patience. Not much understanding, but your patience is appreciated.”

“I watched a lot of professional and college basketball recently and I have one suggestion. I think the rules and regulations should be changed to having every player shave their underarms. They are absolutely disgusting.”

“According to a Vox caller, we have 4,000 illegals a day coming across our border in Mexico. Where do you people get these numbers?”

“I’m answering the question that someone had about a teacher working in the schools who home-schools his own children. I think the answer is pretty obvious. Obviously the Bluffton schools aren’t that good.”

“The United States spends about twice as much per person on health care as Britain, Germany or Japan yet our life expectancy of 78 years is seven-tenths of a year below Britain, one year below Germany and four years below Japan.”

BT COLUMNISTS

“Barbara Kelly’s column once again demonizes yet again Republican women politicians. The only thing that upsets liberals about the strong-willed independent Republican women is that they are not Democrats.”

“What a terribly biased, rational and unfair column Barbara Kelly wrote on Saturday about Republican women. This definitely shows she cannot see the truth. Why doesn’t she take a genuine look at her heroine Nancy Pelosi, with her lies and deceit? Oh that’s right, she can’t.”

“I always enjoy Pastor John Ring’s column. Sometimes they are funny and this recent one I really agree with him that if we are truly Christ followers we would give more than 30 minutes time a week to get to know Jesus.”

“It appears that Mr. McCue’s letter shows contempt for liberal democracy and totally overlooks we the people of the Constitution. The United States formerly is one of the most advanced democracies in the world. Mr. McCue hasn’t a clue what democracy is. It’s always been true that democracy is a danger to any controlling groups; private powers would love to take democracy from the people. For people will strike out against oppressions, fundamentally democracy is the right of free expression and the right to think. This social equality can be marked by the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Mr. McCue is committed to class struggle, the rule of the few. He states that democracy always fails. Perhaps Mr. McCue should read the founding documents rather than use them as wallpaper.”

LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS

“Recently a caller from Edgefield claimed to have taken a drive through Baywood neighborhood. I’m not really sure what it was they didn’t care for. We have owned a home in Baywood for 11 years and raised our kids there. It’s a wonderful neighborhood and the best thing about it is there is no POA association telling us what we can do on our own land.”

“This is for the guy from Edgefield who drove through Baywood the other day. I’m not sure what you were looking for but I’ve lived in Baywood for 11 years and have had no problems living there. So you can just take your little butt right back to Edgefield and leave us alone because we don’t need someone like you bad-mouthing our neighborhood. You have enough problems in your own neighborhood, so go deal with that.”

LOCAL BUSINESS

“Once again, Sunday afternoon, no Hargray e-mail.”

“Hargray strikes again. An interruption in service but no mention in an adjustment in your bill.”

“If you are in need of foot care, I would strongly recommend Atlantic Foot and Ankle Specialists, located on New River Parkway in Hardeeville. Phone number is 208-3348. The staff provides excellent, professional service with genuine care and concern. As an added bonus there is also a shoe store on sight that carries fashionable, comfortable footwear that can even accommodate those with foot problems.”

NATIONAL POLITICS

“MSNBC newscaster O’Donnell is reporting in Wisconsin saying he is so proud to be standing with those union people reporting that story. He is not a newscaster; he is a White House union sympathizer. That doesn’t equal a newscaster. Apparently he is not aware of that, but then why should he be?”

“If the caller who comments that President Obama has spent more money than all our former presidents combined keeps telling this lie then even she might believe it.”

“Courage, intelligence, backbone and love of American traditions are the attributes of Scott Walker, Peter King, and Chris Christie. Their enemies are enemies of a free Democratic America. The unions think they will win in 2012 because of huge political donations made by them and for them but they will lose even bigger in 2012 because Americans have seen their arrogant un-American tactics so loved by thugs.”

“Do you want to bring American jobs home from overseas? Get rid of the unions.”

“George W. Bush’s policies were the cause of our great recession.”

“More drilling in the United States, including Alaska would have a minimal effect on the worldwide supply of oil. This would also rob our great-grandchildren.”

“The alleged 1.2 percent reduction in the worldwide supply in oil and the ridiculous rise in the price of petroleum products was caused by oil corporations and speculators.”

“The person who called us a bank-corrupt nation is very perceptive.”

“Bush’s policies were the cause of our great recession. ‘We the People’ receive this mess as an inheritance.”

“To all our Republican friends in Sun City, a quote from Judge Steven Tyler of American Idol: ‘If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong. Stop blaming President Obama for what President Bush destroyed in eight agonizing years in the White House.’”

“Vox to Vox: This is for the individuals who want President Bush to be a bad president. All I can say is when Bush was president, both of them, we were all working. We had food on the table, we could make our mortgage payments and we could pay our bills. Now you want to tell me who the worst president is?”

“Why was Richard Nixon, who deceptively proclaimed that he had a plan for ending the Vietnam War, not included among the presidents whose terms included the Vietnam War in which 60,000 of our troops were killed?”

“I think a lot of you lefties out there talk the talk but when it comes down to actually voting, you are not voting with your party. You would never admit that though because you are the parties of liars and denial. Most conservatives, some people that you would never expect, truly are because they don’t really talk about it like you yapping lefties. Will of the people. We’ll see who’s right in 2012.”

“What a history lesson. On one TV channel you watch the tragedy and devastation that happened with the earthquake in Japan and what those people are dealing with. On another channel you watch the absolute arrogance of American union workers demanding that their upscale lifestyle be continued in an economy America can no longer afford.”

“It’s a shame that it took something as big as the magnitude of Japan’s earthquake to get MSNBC to stop bashing Republicans and start reporting the news.”

“Apparently most of you people don’t know how the health care bill was written. There were committees and there were Republicans on them and Democrats. Example: The financial committee was headed by Senator Backus and in that committee Olympia Snow changed her vote and voted for it and that’s one of the reasons the bill passed. So of course the Republicans had an input in it and they keep saying they didn’t. They could have objected at that time to anything they didn’t like but they didn’t. So there were Republicans aware of everything in the health care bill because they sat on the committees and had plenty of time to complain about what they didn’t like and get it out. Get your act together and find out what you are talking about.”

“You have to give Michele Bachmann credit for knowing what state she was in when she said South Carolina is a GOP paradise. So Bachman thought the battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in New Hampshire. Big deal. Where does it say in the Constitution that you have to know American history to be a congresswoman or to run for president?”

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